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1. Comparison in Political Science Nancy Bermeo (nancy.bermeo@politics.ox.ac.uk)
2. Constitutions and Constitutionalism Cindy Skach (cindy.skach@politics.ox.ac.uk)
3. Democracy Nancy Bermeo (nancy.bermeo@politics.ox.ac.uk)
4. Democratisation Nancy Bermeo (nancy.bermeo@politics.ox.ac.uk)
5. The State in Comparative Politics Nic Cheeseman (nicholas.cheeseman@politics.ox.ac.uk)
6. Electoral Systems and Representation Ray Duch (raymond.duch@politics.ox.ac.uk)
7. Voting and Elections Nic Cheeseman (nicholas.cheeseman@politics.ox.ac.uk)
8. The Politics of Development Ricardo Soares de Oliveira
(ricardo.soaresdeoliveira@politics.ox.ac.uk)
General Reading
a) Overviews
· Goodin Robert and Klingeman, Hans-Dieter eds (1995), New Handbook of Political Science
· Lane, Jan-Erik and Svante Ersson (2000), The New Institutional Politics: Performance and Outcomes
· Lichbach and Zuckerman, Alan eds (1997), Comparative Politics
· Peters, B Guy (1999), Institutional Theory in Political Science
· Peters, B Guy (1998), Comparative Politics
b) Notable contributions
· Putnam, Robert (1993), Making Democracy Work: Civic Traditions in Modern Italy
· Rueschemeyer, Dietrich et al (1992), Capitalist Development and Democracy
· Skocpol, Theda (1979), States and Social Revolutions: A Comparative Study of France, Russia and China
· Thompson, Michael et al (1999), Cultural Theory as Political Science
· Lijphart, A (1999), Patterns of Democracy: Government Forms and Performance in Thirty -Six Countries (useful for several topics in the course: may be worth buying)
c) Methods and Approaches Readings
· Ragin, Charles C. (1987), The Comparative Method: Moving Beyond Qualitative and Quantitative Strategies
· King, Gary, Keohane, Robert O and Verba, Sidney (1994), Designing Social Inquiry: Scientific Inference in Qualitative Research
· Peters, B Guy (1998), Comparative Politics: Theory and Methods
· Lichbach, Mark Irving and Zuckerman, Alan S eds (1997), Comparative Politics: Rationality, Culture and Structure
· Shepsle, Kenneth A and Mark S Bonchek (1997), Analyzing Politics: Rationality, Behaviour and Institutions
